来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第15集 第15集》

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  Melville reference right here, too.]
  所以玛丽琳在这里也借鉴了他的故事]
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  "Some flying shuttle of business or commerce.
  "天上飞行着一些用于商业贸易运输的飞机
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  Lucille and I might have been two of a numerous family off
  露西尔和我只是众多逃亡家庭的两个代表
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  to visit our grandmother in Lapwai
  我们要去拜访在拉浦崴的祖母家
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  and they might have been touring legislators or members of a dance band.
  他们可能是四处奔走的立法委员或者是舞团的成员
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  Then our being there on a bitter morning in ruined and unsuitable clothes,
  我们穿着破损不堪的衣服在一个严寒的早晨到了祖母家
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  wordlessly looking at the water, would be entirely understandable.
  默默无语地看着这水 让人心生怜悯
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  As it was, I thought of telling them that our grandfather still lay in a
  事实上 我想过告诉他们我们的祖父还躺在一节车厢里
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  train that had slid to the lake floor long before we were born.
  那趟火车在我们出生前滑进了湖床
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  Perhaps we all awaited a resurrection.
  或许我们都在等待他复活
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  Perhaps we expected a train to leap out of the water, caboose foremost,
  或许我们希望那趟火车的车位突然从水中跳出来
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  as if in a movie run backward and then to continue across the bridge.
  就像电影里的回放镜头 之后又重新行驶在大桥上